Image Tag not Displaying in Safari / Konqueror

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Image Tag not Displaying in Safari / Konqueror

Does this have to do my server is giving the wrong content type?

bessington

5:32 am on Dec 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

hello everyone,

i'm going through quite the series of difficulties trying to figure out why an img tag declared in my xhtml is not showing in safari / knoqueror. elsewhere, someone posted that my server is giving the wrong content type. yet at w3.org it validates as xhtml. i am stumped to why this is happening and if this is the source of my errors.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" id="sixapart-standard">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Movable Type 3.2" />

any glaring errors to be seen? thank you!

-bessington

Robin_reala

10:13 am on Dec 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

Load Firefox, put the image URL directly into the address bar and load it, then go to tools / Page Info and check the type field. This should match whatever the image is (image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, etc). If it's something else (e.g. text/plain, etc) then yes, the server is sending wrong media type. You'll have to configure it correctly.

bessington

5:22 pm on Dec 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

image displays as correct type in firefox.

i'm wondering if the image isn't showing due to a text-indent: -9999px;
in the css for the parent div. this is for an image replacement technique. anyone know of safari / knoqueror having a problem with this?

thank you!

-bessington

encyclo

5:36 pm on Dec 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

someone posted that my server is giving the wrong content type

Was the person referring to the content type for the image or the page itself? There is a fad for serving XHTML with an

application/xhtml+xml

mime type, but it is not recommended - best stick to

text/html

as you almost certainly are already using.

This may be a CSS issue - I believe that the

text-indent

method is supposed to work in Safari and Konqueror (BTW which versions are you testing with?) so there may be a conflict within another rule.

Robin_reala

6:05 pm on Dec 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

OT, but 'fad' is a bit harsh. application/xhtml+xml is the future for XHTML - the fact that the major UA around today can't handle it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be thinking about what's coming next.